I recently discovered a couple of wonderful information literacy-inspired song parodies. Chad Bauman wrote and produced a sweet, clever, slightly goofy song on the CRAPtest mnemonic many of us recommend for evaluating sources. Although I would advise kids about thinking a little more contextually about their sources, it’s a very cool way to open the conversation [...]
Infolit, the music video playlist (& some on reading and librarians too)
June 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment
What did your edtech year look like?
June 12, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Dearest readers, What did your edtech year look like? Let’s create a snapshot. As this school year comes to a close, I’d like to call on you to share your discoveries and your wisdom and to help me reflect. Which edtech goodies, tools, apps, platforms, and strategies worked so well for you in 2012/2013 that [...]
EduClipper: just-for-us discovery, collaboration and curation
June 9, 2013 By 2 Comments
Just about a year ago, I shared my excitement about Adam Bellow’s (eduTecher’s) Alpha launch of his clipboard service for education, EduClipper, as a kind of school-friendly, student-safe Pinterest on steriods, without the shoes. EduClipper is now ready for prime time–growing as a collaborative, global, digital curation hub, search/discovery tool and portfolio platform. It is [...]
Poetry Slam: There will be poems (& art & Springfield flavor)
June 6, 2013 By 3 Comments
After our first/last highly successful poetry slam, demand grew for us to schedule a second event before the school year ended. And last week we did. Although I worried that final projects, prom, graduation, finals, etc. would get in the way, the kiddos from my dear Literary Mag, Gay Straight Alliance, Book Club and Gallery [...]
PowToon + Katie = even more awesomeness (Updated!)
June 5, 2013 By 1 Comment
I am a big fan of the talented, adorable and slightly wacky author/illustrator/kidlit blogger/podcaster Katie Davis. I am also a big fan of the slightly wacky, digital animation tool PowToon with its cool themes, props, animated characters and transitions. So what happens to the equation when a popular picture book author/illustrator partners with digital, comic-based presentation/video maker platform? [...]
Not just about citing images (so much more to embed from NoodleTools!)
June 1, 2013 By 2 Comments
A Guide to Citing Images, a new infographic from our friends at NoodleTools, offers a MLA-aligned flow chart to guide researchers through a variety of image citation situations. But it is not just about image documentation. It asks learners to ask themselves a few important questions before using and documenting images that were born digital. [...]
A very handy CC poster
June 1, 2013 By 1 Comment
We’ve been relatively successful in spreading the gospel of using of Creative Commons and public domain work in student products. Our Copyright Friendly LibGuide is one of the most used of all of our Guides. I recently added this handy infographic Creative Commons: free photos for bloggers by Foter to our resources and hope to [...]
Voice your comments
May 26, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Share this with you favorite essay and paper-grading teachers: So much of our students’ work– collaborative or independent, so many of our professional documents, are created using Google Docs. And so many times it’s a strain to express in the margin, or in text notes, the personal/enthusiastic/caring/connected feedback we’d really like to share. When we [...]
New from PBS Learning Media
May 25, 2013 By 1 Comment
PBS recently announced that its PBS LearningMedia, the media-on-demand service for PreK-12 educators, now offers more than 30,000 free, carefully cataloged, standards-aligned, digital resources. Honored with two 2013 SIIA CODiE Awards in the Education Technology category, these resources were specifically designed to address national curricular gaps for high-quality digital media. The new content features interactive games, images, videos, [...]
Goodbye strategies
May 24, 2013 By Leave a Comment
For the past several years, our seniors have looked forward to filling the library display case with some sort of artistic expression relating to their plans for next year. This year, we added another element to this tradition. We asked them for a memory card. It hasn’t caught on quite as well as the college [...]
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